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Henry VIII
A F Pollard
Henry VIII
A F Pollard
In the whole range of English history there is no monarch whose character has been more variously depicted by contemporaries or more strenuously debated by posterity than the "majestic lord who broke the bonds of Rome." To one historian an inhuman embodiment of cruelty and vice, to another a superhuman incarnation of courage, wisdom and strength of will, Henry VIII. has, by an almost universal consent, been placed above or below the grade of humanity. So unique was his personality, so singular his achievements, that he appears in the light of a special dispensation sent like another Attila to be the scourge of mankind, or like a second Hercules to cleanse, or at least to demolish, Augean stables. The dictates of his will seemed as inexorable as the decrees of fate, and the history of his reign is strewn with records of the ruin of those who failed to placate his wrath. Of the six queens he married, two he divorced, and two he beheaded...
Medie | Bøger Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg) |
Udgivet | 12. april 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9781545344590 |
Forlag | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Antal sider | 364 |
Mål | 152 × 229 × 19 mm · 485 g |
Sprog | Engelsk |